Two little boys growing in our hearts!

Thank you for all of your endurance through our unending posts about this fundraiser and that fundraiser, and how we still need to raise funds! We are sorry for the constant pull and more thankful than you can imagine for your support! It seems this will be the summer of waiting!

It's funny, Kelly and I were talking about it the other day but both of our girls were born in November, and it looks as if our boys will be coming home to us around then as well! Funny how God does things that way. We have had three summers of waiting, two for precious little girls who joined our family biologically, and now we are well into one that will bring two precious little boys!

In the meantime we are trying to busy ourselves and keep preparing for their arrival. We got HUGE news this week, the boys will have ONE social worker. This may not make sense, but because they are not biologically related it seemed as though they would need two different social workers which would mean double the court proceedings, and double the amount of time necessary. In a huge development we found out that they are both from the same county and would be granted the same social worker, and same judge for court proceedings which means that can occur simultaneously!

What a huge blessing this is!

In other news, we are busy getting ready for them and thanks to our dear friend Kylie of Kylie Davis Photography we were able to do an adoption photo shoot for the boys! Since we would not have a maternity shoot we wanted to mark their arrival in a special way! She did amazingly as always! Here are just a few from the fun we had!

You can check out her website here: www.kyliedavisphotography.com

 

I just love that she caught our true goofy nature here too! Can't wait to have our welcome home photo shoot with them in their shoes!

$.10 TV maddness!

Ok guys! There are only 17 days left to purchase you chance to win that beautiful 55 inch flat screen TV and wall mount! And today I have officially lost it. For the next 24 hours only chances are only $.10! That's right $1.00 now buys you ten chances! and don't forget every share gets you another chance as well!

To purchase your chances just click on the picture of the TV on the right and this will take you to our donation page!


Thank you for helping and good luck!

Blog hacker!-but I love him!

So my sweet husband asked me if he could write a little something for the blog! Don't worry I spell checked for him! He he he! Little did I know that he would totally show me up and make me cry my eyes out!

Hey blog readers! This is Kelly. I know that Taylor is the one that you are used to hearing from and she has been doing a great job. If you forgive the intrusion I won't take much of your time. As we are heading into  Father's Day weekend I have been thinking about my fathers and my children. I have three dads one step, one bio & one in law. I normally throw away all of these titles since they all had a part in raising me. I am so blessed to have these men in my life and have learned a lot from each of them about being a dad and a man. 

I am so proud of both of my girls and couldn't imagine life without them in it. They make us laugh and they make us think, they have also made us apologize to our own parents when we realize what we put them through  as kids. I think about next year and I will be celebrating with two additions to our family. That makes me smile to think about. 

I was very excited to get to go see Man of Steel last night with a buddy. ( it was awesome) there was one scene that I saw on the commercials and when I saw it in the movie it didn't pull on my heart any less. Pa Kent is explaining to Clark that he is not from earth and how they found him, Clark says to Pa Kent -"can't I just keep pretending I am your son?" Pa grabs him and holds him tight and says "you are my son"---- Oh my goodness, if I was a cry-er I would need some tissues. Adoption has made us think of things differently in our family, and one of the desires Taylor and I have through this process is not only to bring two boys into our family but also to make Christ known through this time. I mentioned before I had three dads. I really have a fourth  that should be the first on the list. God is my father. He adopted me into his family when I was six years old. As we move through this process and go through Father's Day if you have any questions about what it means to be a child of God please shoot us a line and we would be overjoyed to share our Father with you. Hope you have a great weekend and make sure to give your fathers a hug if its possible. 

KB

147,000,000 orphans -2 =www.thebrewerbrood.com

Give1Save1 Wrap Up

There are truly no words to express the gratitude we feel for all of the support that was shown to our family last week! Never have we been so humbled by Gods provision and seen the body of Christ act in such unity for the cause of orphans, and in Hank and Liam's case ORPHANS NO MORE!

Day one of our fundraiser we had over $2,000! WOW!

By the end of our fundraiser we had raised $6081.00 to help bring home Hank and Liam! WOW WOW WOW!

You didn't stop there! It wasn't enough that you gave of your time to share our story and your funds to bring home our sons, we were again blown away to have some tell us that instead of accepting their prize they wanted us to use the money to take care of our boys!

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW! Again  we are so so humbled by your love! There just are not enough words to truly express our gratitude, our love, and just how blessed we feel to have you share this journey with us in making HIM famous and bringing home our Hank and Liam!

Congrats to our prize winners:

Rebecca Day
Hayley Templet
Renee Inarritu
Craig Chappell

That's right folks, all of those funds came in only 4 days!

Big Screen TV

Alright ladies and gents! Here is the deal. Kelly and I have been given a 55 in Sony Bravia Big Screen TV and wall mount for our adoption! Donations of any amount will get you a chance to win this! $1.00 buys one chance $20 buys twenty chances $30 buys 30 chances etc. etc. etc. After midnight July 5th we will let you know who the lucky person is!

In order to purchase your tickets click on the  TV on the right. This will take you to the page where you can enter your desired donation amount and your credit or debit card information!

**We are more than happy to arrange pick up or delivery of the TV to you if you are within driving distance, if shipping is necessary we can work with you to arrange it**

Thank you for helping us to bring home sweet Hank and Liam

Give1Save1 Technical Difficulties

Hey Guys,
I am sorry but it seems we are having some more technical difficulties with the Pure Charity fundraiser. In the meantime we have set up our pay pal button again to receive your donations. We still have two days left for our fundraiser so please keep up the sharing!

AMC winner!

Thank you for another wonderful day of giving! Wednesday ended at $2964.00! Congrats to Rebecca Day for winning the AMC gift card!

Don't forget my challenge to make it to $5,000.00 everyone that has given all week will go into a drawing for a two day Hilton hotel and date night get away!

Thursdays give away is $50.00 in cold hard cash!!!! Spend it anyway you like!

Thank you again for all you do!

Back to family time now, the Brewers have retreated to the beach and its time to go stick out toes in the sand!

On a final note, it's official we are out of translation and our dossier will be in court in 7-10 days! WOW! We got an email from our agency tonight that it is time to get our travel shots!!!!!?aaaaahhh! We are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!

Target winner!

We continue to be so blessed by your giving!
We ended the day yesterday at $2929.00! Congrats to clae and Hayley templet on winning the $150.00 target gift card!

Tears of Joy! Day 1 Wrap up and Winner- Plus a $150.00 target gift card give-a-way!

Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

 

 

Wow! What a blessing you are to our family! I cannot imagine a better example of Christ's love than you have shown today in your giving to help bring home to little boys who will be orphans no more! Tears are streaming down my face as I write this post! You cannot imagine the love we are feeling! We are so blown away by your generosity! Day 1 and we have raised over $2,800.00!!!! I have to tell you, as I was writing this post  had to come back and edit it several times because the funds just kept coming in! Amazing! There are no words to express our generosity!

 

 

Congrats to Renee Inarritu on winning the $50.00 anywhere you want gift card! Please let me know where you would like it to!

 

Today we are moving on to a $150.00 target gift card! Don't forget that for every share, referral, and dollar given you receive an entry into the raffle!

 

 

We are so excited to see who wins today!

 

Thank you so much for all you are doing to help bring home our boys!

Technical difficulties galore!

Ok guys,
I am so sorry, but it seems Pure charity has been having some technical difficulties today, but you guys have not let that slow you down! WOW! You guys are amazing!

Anyway, we wanted to let you know that things are up and running again on Pure Charity, and give you some more info!

1.When you click on view fundraiser details in will take you the Pure Charities website
2. Once you are on Pure Charities site click on back this fundraiser
3. Once you do this you will be asked to create an account. You can either sign up with facebook, or provide your email address and create a password. (facebook seems to be the easiest.
4. Now that you have created an account you can go back to our blog and click on view fundraiser details, and back this fundraiser
5. Pure Charity defaults to $5.00, but you can click on this box and change this to any amount you want.
6. Now you can enter your credit or debit card information and you are ready to make your donation!

*****DON'T FORGET ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE*****

 

I am sure this is irritating, and I am so sorry for that, but thank you so much for your persistence!

We have also added our pay pal button back to the blog just under the pure charity button if you would simply prefer to use that!

 

Again thank you so much! Keep it up!

ITS FINALLY TIME! and a $50.00 gift card of your choice!

That's right! Its finally time for our Give1Save1 Fundraiser! You can see our video below :




Love for Liam, Hope for Hank from Taylor on Vimeo.


Today is Day 1 of our week long fundraiser! Don't forget that every day we will be giving away something great! Today's give away is a $50.00 gift card of your choice! Yep that's right, want a movie gift card, amazon car, iTunes, card etc. If we can get it we will!

There is something in it for you to (other than our eternal love and gratitude:). Every day this week we will be giving something away on our blog! For every dollar given you will receive an entry in that days raffle (this is your first step). Then for every share, email, etc. you will receive an additional entry, then if that share results in a dollar given via a referral from you, you will receive an additional entry!

For example:
You give $10.00 today and you are entered 10 times into a raffle for the $50.00 gift card of your choice, you share us on your website and receive another entry. Then someone gives $10.00 and tells us you referred them and you receive an additional ten entries!

Woo hoo! you have 21 entries for the $50.00 gift card!

 Winners will be drawn at midnight tonight and announced on tomorrow morning mornings post!

To give to our fundraiser go to the  link to the right labeled Pure Charity for Brewers, and click on view fundraiser details! This will take you to the Pure Charity site where you then click on "back this fundraiser", on this page you can complete your donation.

If someone referred you be sure to comment on this post with their name and yours, or just email me at Taylor2315@hotmail.com


Don't forget to share!

We are asking you to share our story, share our blog, www.thebrewerbrood.com. Do you have a website you can post our video on? Maybe your business or place of work will let you post it? Can you post it on your facebook feed, college website, church website, twitter feed, send it to every email in your address book?

It would mean the world to us if we could get this out to thousands and thousands of people! We are praying that we could complete our funding next week which means we need to raise $26,000 dollars! We know that's a lot, but we have already raised over $21,000.00 thanks to your amazing generosity!